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- Death and Mastery : Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject o
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- 9780231176682
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Psychology, Religion, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Death and Mastery : Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Subject
- Movements / Psychoanalysis, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Movements / Critical Theory, Psychology of Religion
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0.1 in
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- 0.6 in
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Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic "foundation stone" of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheorized drive to mastery.
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Columbia University Press
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0231176686
ISBN-13
9780231176682
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224466894
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Publication Name
Death and Mastery : Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Movements / Critical Theory, Psychology of Religion
Publication Year
2016
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Psychology, Religion, Philosophy
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
16.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2016-014150
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
61
Lc Classification Number
Bf175.5.D4f66 2016
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College Graduate Student
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This book will appeal to students of critical theory, philosophy, psychology, and social science. There is no other book like it, given the work's fresh and accessible language and its scholarly engagement with ideas that have long waited for an intellectual resurrection., Death and Mastery raises a number of genuinely interesting and important theoretical concerns. At various moments in the text, the writing is so down to earth as to make the reader smile: it is wonderful to see academic ideas expressed so matter-of-factly, without the usual rhetorical acrobatics., This book will appeal to students of critcal theory, philosophy, psychology, and social science. There is no other book like it, given the work's fresh and accessible language and its scholarly engagement with ideas that have long waited for an intellectual resurrection., At various moments in Death and Mastery , the writing is so down to earth as to make the reader smile: it is wonderful to see academic ideas expressed so matter-of-factly, without the usual rhetorical acrobatics., To the vexed question of the relationship of psychoanalysis to social theory Benjamin Fong brings a distinctive sensibility and tact. Avoiding the portentousness and unduly ambitious abstraction of this now overspecialized field, Fong has made the whole subject both newly intriguing, and wholly engaging., Benjamin Fong offers the most cogent and compelling case I've encountered in defense of the death drive, showing that it should not be equated with violence and destruction but, to the contrary, seen as a means for individuation and life., In this masterful and enlivening study of the ways in which the concepts of death and mastery have been elaborated in Freudian and post-Freudian social theory, Ben Fong has given us the means to think about human nature and human community now , under conditions of advanced capitalism, without succumbing to the scientism of the new neurobiology or to the social constructivism of recent historicist social and cultural theory. The argument turns on the ambiguity embedded in the notion of mastery: on the one hand, the capacity to engage creatively with the world, to master the tasks of living a historical form of life; on the other, the temptation to enslave, to compel others to exercise this competence in one's place. Fong is able to analyze with remarkable lucidity a complex array of individual and social phenomena by fleshing out the imbrications of these twinned responses to what Freud called the drives' demand for work . Fong makes abundantly clear that drive theory and social theory are strongest when thought together.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: In Defense of Drive Theory Part One: Dream 1. Death, Mastery, and the Origins of Life: Sigmund Freud's Strange Proposal Part Two: Interpretation 2. Between Need and Dread: Hans Loewald and the Primordial Density 3. Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis (Reprised): Jacques Lacan and the Genesis of Omnipotence Part Three: Working Through 4. The Psyche in Late Capitalism I: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization 5. The Psyche in Late Capitalism II: Herbert Marcuse and the Technological Lure Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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2016
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